Just realized something about Prince [View all]

I'd never thought of him as "black," just as a creative genius. Black would be way down the list of descriptors if someone from another planet asked me to describe him. Same thing with Michael Jackson or Samuel L. Jackson.

But now I'm wondering if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I'm a gay white guy, and sorry if my posting here is an invasion, I just thought I'd ask the folks who know more directly. I've dated guys of color and we've been intimate, but I can't know the realities of someone else's experiences and life. I can't know what it's like being a kid and hearing the n-word slung at you the first time and then the horror that comes from understanding what it means, or learning why you should rightfully be wary of the police while others of us were told we could always run to them and trust them.

Again,sorry if I tread in a place I shouldn't, but dammit, I'm so sick of the divide that's been created between people who should just be people and when I was a kid I used to get a tan every summer because I liked yours. Except you don't have tan lines (I know, I've checked.).